Morning Sun

At 57,145 gross tons, Morning Sun is the 8,624th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 9.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 834th by tonnage — larger than 72% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Morning Sun is the 1,224th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 301 oil tankers flying the Panama flag, of which 116 are larger by tonnage.

Morning Sun was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 115th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 213 vessels to Onomichi Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 28,520 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 244.0 m overall, Morning Sun is 65.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9110183 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1994 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.